Copacobana and La Paz, Bolivia

alright, so the pictures with lake titicaca and the white church are from copacobana, and the rest are from La Paz. sorry for poor organization but my internet time is running out. a little bit of explanation. the wrestling pics are from the cholita wrestling... a wicked good time. basically fake wrestling with cartoon type characters like ninja turtles and what not, and then in between were the cholitas or girl fights. they were pretty intense. one girl was thrown over the railing into us... it was fantastic. The other pics are just in and aaround la paz, including our hostel which was really great. tonight we are off to potosi, the worlds highest city, where we will see the silver mines and play with dynamite.

Carnival means Water and Foam fight......

so I am now in La Paz, Bolivia and it so happens that we arrived here on the first day of carnival. Basically it is a city wide party that lasted over 2 days. what is wrong with Canada that we dont ever do anything like this. so arriving here we were unaware of the intensity of carnival. we wondered on the street and get soaked with water and attacked with foam, it was pretty bad, we had no idea what was going on..... until yesterday when we got our revenge. there were 6 of us, and we managed to purchase 100 water balloons and some foam spray cans. we entered the streets and let the wars begin. It was such a good time. we got into water and foam fights we everybody including other gringos, the locals, drive-bys, store owners.. its was great. unforetuneatly there will be no pics for this, but you can only imagine. I think we must have provided a lot of entertainment because one local man enjoyed it so much he gave us some beer and welcomed us to La Paz, Bolivia. It was pretty insane. alright, so besides that, Bolivia is fantastic so far. It is incredibly cheap here. I am basically spending $10 a day which includes meals, a place to stay, and usually some drinks at the bar during the night. I dont know how it can be so cheap but I like it. We came to La Paz from Copacabana, also in Bolivia, and this place was nice. It was right on lake titicaca, which is the highest lake in the world. maybe in a couple days i can get some bolivia pics up. Well, thats all for now, I hope everyone is well.

AMAZON JUNGLE !!!!

alright, so we were suppose to spend a month in the jungle, but 2 weeks was plenty. It was a lot of fun, but whoa it was hot as hell. Everyday was around 34 degrees Celsius, plus a humidity that was often in the 80's or higher. Im gonna try to post pics, but not sure how it will go. Alright, so what happened in the jungle. Well..... I was able to see lots of different monkey's, some snakes, many spiders, crazy coloured frogs - and yes I did encounter a poisoness dart frog. I also saw some caiman, went fishing and caught piranha, which we later ate, it was actually pretty damn good. oh yeah, there was also a baby anteater at the lodge, which at first was cute and entertaining, but became very annoying. it was basically an attention whore and liked to piss us off, but it was good fun. It was basically like a dog only more demanding. The scariest part was during our last transect. Oh yeah I guess I should tell you what our research was. Every other day we were either sitting across the river from a clay watching and recording the macaw activity, or walking on transects seeing what mammels we encountered. The macaw colpa was easy work, and rob and I were partners. The most we saw in one day was around 85. they are basically massive parrots. alright, so on the last day during our transect which started at 530 in the morning, rob and I had a scary moment. We ran into a pack of 50 white lipped peccary on the trail. look them up on google. it is basically a wild pig, and they are massive and vicious. anyways, they were on the trail, and rob, myself, and our guide julio were hiding behind a tree, which was pretty small. a couple were sniffing us out and coming towards us. they were about 5 metres away and i thought i was doomed, cuz one was about to charge us. Thanks god julio ran at it with a machete and chopped down a small tree. the noise scared them off, and it was quite the rush. well... all in all if you ever have the chance go the jungle. Despite the heat, the experience is phenomenal. here are some pics.....